Fwd: Qt 5.4 update (and call for testing), January 25

Rohan Garg rohangarg at kubuntu.org
Mon Jan 26 01:31:52 UTC 2015


AFAIK we are more than OK, we *want* Qt 5.4 since upstream says it contains
important bug fixes for Plasma 5.2
On 26 Jan 2015 01:30, "Scott Kitterman" <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:

> FYI.  Are we OK with 5.4?
>
> Scott K
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> Subject: Qt 5.4 update (and call for testing), January 25
> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2015, 20:55:51
> From: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Dear Ubuntuers,
>
> Today we have reached a point when our Qt 5.4 packages are finally
> built on all architectures — so I decided to post a quick update
> on the current Qt 5.4 status.
>
> Disclaimer: we are still far from “ready for being uploaded to
> vivid archive” state. That will happen only when Qt 5.4.1 packages
> are ready and all blocking bugs are fixed.
>
> Recent progress
> ===============
>
> * All the initial Qt 5.4 packaging was done by Timo Jyrinki.
> * qtwebsockets tests failure has been fixed, thanks to Helge Deller.
> * stellarium and qtserialport build failures have been fixed, thanks
>   to Łukasz Zemczak.
> * some touch-related packages have been rebuilt against Qt 5.4
>   (Dmitry Shachnev, Łukasz Zemczak).
> * some Qt packages have been synced/merged from Debian experimental
>   (Dmitry Shachnev).
>
> Known bugs
> ==========
>
> The full list of Qt 5.4 bugs is available at
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=qt5.4>.
>
> The most important bugs are:
>
> * qtbase tests failures
> * ubuntu-ui-toolkit tests failures
> * unity8 behaviour bugs
>
> Help with dealing with all these bugs is always welcome.
>
> Updating to Qt 5.4
> ==================
>
> The Qt 5.4 packages are available in ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/landing-005.
> These packages are unstable and may break your system.
>
> That PPA is regularly synced with archive, so that all packages there
> are re-built against Qt 5.4.
>
> Upgrade instructions for both mobile devices and desktop are available at
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting>.
>
> Please test these packages and report any bugs you find (tagged with
> ‘qt5.4’ tag).
>
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev
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